The Music of Hindostan c5.1

c5.1

Rabindranath Tagore. From a drawing by W. Rothenstein *Frontispiece* PLATE 1. Music party. Detail from a picture (seventeenth century) in the collection of G. N. Tagore . *To face p. 14* PLATE 2. Māria Gonds. Circular dance Gonds and Kanwars. Slow dance, with anklets Malyas dancing Malayan women dancing . . . . . *To face p. 30* PLATE 3. Kashmīri bīn-player Nāgasaram-players, Tanjore . . . . *To face p. 46* PLATE 4. Rāgi-grinding Pāṇans Schoolmistress, Tanjore . . . . . *To face p. 63* PLATE 5. Musicians. Detail from an eighteenth-century Rajput cartoon in the collection of A. K. Coomaraswamy . . . . . . *To face p. 73* PLATE 6. Detail from a picture of the Surrender of Kandahar in the collection of Sītārām Lal of Benares. Seventeenth century . . *To face p. 77* PLATE 7. Mughal drawing, seventeenth century, of a bīn-player, from an original in the collection of G. N. Tagore . . . . . . *To face p. 78* PLATE 8. Dancing girl, South India . . . . *To face p. 80* PLATE 9. Portrait of Numa Khan Katawant, a musician of the court of Jahāngīr, from a picture in the collection of A. K. Coomaraswamy . . . *To face p. 83* PLATE 10. Seshanna, vīṇā-player, Mysore Aiknāth Vishnu Paṇḍit, vīṇā-player, Poona . *To face p. 86* PLATE 11. Ranganna, drummer, Mysore . . . *To face p. 225* PLATE 12. Bhai Santu, drummer, Amritsar . . . *To face p. 227* PLATE 13. Group of instruments. From the collection in the Museum, Bangalore . . . . *To face p. 228* PLATE 14. Sāmagaḥ, Madras Sāmagaḥ, Bangalore . . . . . . *To face p. 264* TABLE 1. Hindostani Rāgs . . . . . . *To face p. 151* TABLE 2. Folk-song variants . . . . . . *To face p. 154* were under sentence of death? A piece of scenery is truly enjoyed only in proportion as a man knows what he is looking for and realizes what he has found. It is a synthesis, but it is analysable, even if we do not consciously analyse. It is the same with music.